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Over time, Green Life has covered many ways of giving that give back. Here is a compilation of some of them for those of you who are still looking for some inspiration!
Give an “experience” gift or the gift of your time.
- Provide a little relief for a loved one’s stress level by giving a gift certificate for a massage or facial.
- Purchase a day pass or membership to a club, gym, park, zoo, museum or organization - either for both of you, the whole family, or for the recipient only.
- Sign up for lessons or classes in something you’ve always wanted to learn together.
- Plan a play date with your children such as a day at the museum followed by lunch, a day at the movies followed by pizza and bowling or an afternoon of snowshoeing or skating and hot chocolate.
- For more ideas click here.
Give a gift where a portion of the proceeds from your purchase benefit another cause or the retailer has charitable programs in place.
- “Philanthropy is Beautiful,” says Joan Hornig. The profit from your jewelry purchase is directed to the charity of your choice.
- If you are a die hard department store shopper, Macy’s is donating $1 for every submitted child’s letter to Santa to the Make a Wish Foundation.
Give money to a charity.
- Does the recipient, or a loved one of theirs, suffer from any particular disease? If so, make a contribution to the associated organization in their name.
- Think locally. Is there something in the recipient’s community that they are involved in that you could make a contribution toward?
- If you don’t know what the person would prefer, Charity Navigator is a guide to giving while TisBest allows you to buy a gift card and the recipient decides which charity they’d like to put it toward.
- For more ideas click here.
Give the gift of a micro-loan.
- Kiva gives you the opportunity to make business loans to those in need in third-world countries.
Give gifts that are Fair Trade certified.
- Milwaukee Fair Trade Coalitionclick on “where to buy”
- For more Fair Trade gift ideas and resources click here.
Give gifts from local businesses.
- Shop at the Milwaukee County Winter Farmers Market on Saturday and put together a gift basket for the foodie in your life.
- Go to gift fairs being held by local organizations where items for sale are usually handmade by local residents.
- Give a gift certificate to a locally owned coffee house, restaurant or boutique in the recipient’s neighborhood.
